Irene O'Garden
Irene O'Garden has won or been nominated for prizes in nearly every writing category from stage to e-screen, hardcovers, as well as literary magazines and anthologies. Her critically acclaimed play, Women On Fire, (Samuel French) played sold-out houses at Off-Broadway’s Cherry Lane Theatre and was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award. O’Garden won a Pushcart Prize for her lyric essay “Glad To Be Human,” which is included in her new book of her essays by that name just published by Mango (May 2020.) Harper published her first memoir Fat Girl; her second, Risking the Rapids: How My Wilderness Journey Healed My Childhood was published by Mango last January. Fulcrum, published in 2017 by Nirala, is her first poetry collection. O’Garden’s poems and essays have been featured in dozens of literary journals and anthologies. Irene is also a Poetry Educator with the Hudson River chapter of the national River Of Words program. She occasionally blogs at www.ireneogarden.com
